1What advantage then hath the Jew ? or what is the profit of circumcision ? 2Much every way : first of all , that they were intrusted with the oracles of God . 3For what if some were without faith ? shall their want of faith make of none effect the faithfulness of God ? 4God forbid : yea , let God be found true , but every man a liar ; as it is written , That thou mightest be justified in thy words , And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment . 5But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God , what shall we say ? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath ? ( I speak after the manner of men .) 6God forbid : for then how shall God judge the world ? 7But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory , why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8and why not ( as we are slanderously reported , and as some affirm that we say ), Let us do evil , that good may come ? whose condemnation is just . 9What then ? are we better than they ? No , in no wise : for we before laid to the charge both of Jews and Greeks , that they are all under sin; 10as it is written , There is none righteous , no , not one ; 11There is none that understandeth , There is none that seeketh after God ; 12They have all turned aside , they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth good , no , not so much as one : 13Their throat is an open sepulchre ; With their tongues they have used deceit : The poison of asps is under their lips : 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness : 15Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16Destruction and misery are in their ways ; 17And the way of peace have they not known : 18There is no fear of God before their eyes . 19Now we know that what things soever the law saith , it speaketh to them that are under the law ; that every mouth may be stopped , and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God : 20because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight ; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.
Justification by Faith
21But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested , being witnessed by the law and the prophets ; 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe ; for there is no distinction ; 23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God ; 24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus : 25whom God set forth to be a propitiation , through faith , in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God ; 26for the showing, I say , of his righteousness at this present season : that he might himself be just , and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus . 27Where then is the glorying ? It is excluded . By what manner of law ? of works ? Nay : but by a law of faith . 28We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law . 29Or is God the God of Jews only ? is he not the God of Gentiles also ? Yea , of Gentiles also : 30if so be that God is one , and he shall justify the circumcision by faith , and the uncircumcision through faith . 31Do we then make the law of none effect through faith ? God forbid : nay, we establish the law .